In the 1970's, when author Denise Hamilton was going to Loyola Marymount, she'd drive along the coast on Vista Del Mar, sandwiched between LAX and Dockweiler Beach. To her right was the Pacific Ocean, ...

Once upon a time, movie stars lived there. Now it's just a bunch of empty streets by the airport. When we think of ghost towns, we tend to think of tumbleweeds blowing through the streets of a ...

Once a thriving coastal neighborhood near LAX, Surfridge has been abandoned for decades due to airport expansion and environmental concerns. Now, a major restoration milestone has been reached, with ...

Once a thriving coastal neighborhood near LAX, Surfridge has been abandoned for decades due to airport expansion and environmental concerns. Now, a major habitat restoration effort has removed ...

The May 2012 issue of Travel and Leisure magazine named LAX the 2nd worst airport in the United States. LAX took the lowest scores in almost all categories ranging from check-in to cleanliness to ...

Last week, we published an article about a town outside Paris that was abandoned after it ended up under the flight path of Charles de Gaulle Airport. We compared it to Surfridge, a town taken by ...

Rare butterflies and other creatures thrive at the site of the Surfridge community, which was all but wiped out by LAX about 50 years ago. The California Coastal Commission recently approved a ...

If you’re in an airplane taking off from LAX flying over the ocean, look down and you’ll see a wide stretch of empty streets, block after block, cutting through nothing but brown land. KCRW listener ...

On a good day — and most days were good days — the ocean waves would only lightly tickle the sandy toes of Surfridge. Hovering about 100 feet above the Southern California shore on grassy hills, the ...

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The remains of what was once one of Los Angeles’ most coveted neighborhoods can be seen behind a fence topped with barbed wire. Weeds sprout through cracks along streets lined with majestic palms.